Bennie Thompson Quotes

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• Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our…
• Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is…
• If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.'…
• Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should…
• Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just…
• Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
• I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social…
• Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not
• Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be…
• Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives
• Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a…
• History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
• Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.
• While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.
• We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.
• I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

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